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Chiefs of bp. i asked the president's point man in the gulf admiral about that and more. you wrote a letter this week to the chairman of the board of bp effectively summoning him and his other top executives to come to washington next week to meet with you and to meet with the president of the united states. i guess a lot of people when they read that letter, they said what took so long? why is it taking so long for the president and for you to meet with the chairman of the board of bp? >> well, wolf, as you know, i've stated many, many times, i have frequent daily contact with tony hayward, i...

Federal government, the coast guard admiral. and he said you know what? if we, the bdf have any problems getting access to the bp areas, they're not letting us shoot video or talk to individuals, let him and his staff know, he'll order them to open it up unless there's a legitimate security concern. do you buy that? >> well, no, i know reporters haven't been able to get through, at least that's what the journalists are telling me. i know that it took senator boxer how many days to get high definition video of which we got. i think it was day 30 before we got any video. maybe there was miscommu...

We get about 85 million tourists come to the sunshine state every year. i think in large measure because florida is such a beautiful place to visit and a great place to come. but we're doing everything we can to try to protect her. and we'll keep doing that every day. >> how far has the oil spread to the beaches of florida at least right now? >> not that far. and that's the good news. at least in the short-term. now, we don't know what the long-term effect is going to be, nobody does. and that really is all contingent on capping that spew that's coming out of the middle of the gulf of mexico. ...

Feature in which the reservoir just keeps releasing oil and so on, and very, very difficult to stop, if not possible -- not impossible. >> and when you say "permanent," you mean that even if they manage to cap this specific rig, the oil would just seep out in huge quantities foreever? >> it would come out through the rocks and so on. now, with time the main pressure would decrease and it would come to some steady state like we have in santa barbara or elsewhere, hundreds or whatever barrels per day. but initially, we'd have sort of a very large flow coming up, and this is -- this is why it's r...

And bruce in philadelphia has a really dim view. jack, it's here, we've entered a depression and no one will admit it. i don't know if it's that bad yet. if you want to read more, grow to my blog, cnn.com/caffertyfile. wolf? >> jack cafferty, thank you. and to our viewers, you're in "the situation room." happening now -- the amount of oil gushing into the gulf is believed to be much higher -- much higher -- than previously thought. researchers have now doubled their estimate on the oil flow. but i'll speak with a member of that government-backed team who fears the leak may even be worse. a...